Siblings’ outdoor fabrics bold, bright, fashion-forward

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LoomSource

Corsicana-bred sisters Katharine Hable Sweeney and SusanHable Smith have designed a high-performance indoor/outdoor fabric line for Californiacommercial upholstery company LoomSource, a go-to label in the hospitalityindustry. Dubbed The Port & Cape Collection.

For more than a decade, Corsicana-bred sisters Katharine Hable Sweeney and Susan Hable Smith have designed lighthearted fabrics and home accents for their New York-based brand Hable Construction, named after their Texas great-grandfather’s company.

Their latest project is a high-performance indoor-outdoor fabric line for California commercial upholstery company LoomSource, a go-to label in the hospitality industry. Dubbed the Port & Cape Collection, the fabrics are bleach-cleanable, antibacterial, antifungal and eco-friendly, making them especially useful for patios, kids and high-traffic areas.

Fourteen eye-popping patterns are available in 82 colors including reds, browns, fuchsia, aqua and a pretty pool blue. Hable Construction’s best-selling designs Big Beads, Fig and Palm are available in the high-performance fabric as well as Tumbleweed, which tips its hat to the siblings’ Texas roots.

In addition, there are eight new designs inspired by global motifs, such as Bali Block (an African skirt detail played muse), Dhurrie (think a painterly classic chevron) and Malta (inspired by a graphic Moroccan tile). Murano, a squiggly design stirred with a snippet of Hungarian lace, is a fashion-forward choice just in time for fall.

The fabric is available to the design trade only; wholesale prices range from $19 to $34 a yard. A Dallas showroom for Momentum Group, which carries LoomSource and the Port & Cape collection, is expected to debut in early 2013. Until then, the fabric is available by calling 1-800-366-6839 or visiting memosamples.com.

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